Newspaper headlines: ‘General election now’ and ‘allies abandon Johnson’

An unnamed member of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, who used to support Mr Johnson, tells the paper that “the pantomime has to end”. But in his article in the Mail on Sunday, the former Cabinet minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, argues that Mr Johnson’s dramatic resignation “puts him in pole position to return as Conservative leader if a vacancy should arise”.